ALESSANDRO PARISOTTI / SALVATOR ROSA – Se tu m’ami / Star Vicino
ENRIQUE DELFINO – Griseta [Lautaro Greco]
GIUSEPPE TORELLI – Tu lo sai
PIAZZOLLA – Los Pájaros Perdidos
DUKE ELLINGTON – Solitude
ISHAM JONES – There Is No Greater Love [Charlie Porter, Jimmy Madison & Gregg August]
BENEDETTI MARCELLO – Quella Fiamma
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO – Nel cor piu mio non sento (1788)
GEORGE SHEARING – Lullaby of Birdland (1952)
ZEZ CONFREY – Dizzy Fingers [Craig Terry]
GENE SCHEER – Lean Away (1996)

VIVALDI – Col Piacer

JOYCE DIDONATO
Multi-Grammy Award winner and 2018 Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Kansas-born Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe, and has been proclaimed “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation” by The New Yorker. With a voice “nothing less than 24-carat gold” according to The Times, Joyce has towered at the top of the industry both as a performer, a producer, and a fierce advocate for the arts. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.

Recent highlights include Handel’s Theodora for the Teatro Real in Madrid and a highly acclaimed European recital tour with performances at Teatro alla Scala, Staatsoper Berlin, Athens Megaron, and Palau de la Música de Valencia. Joyce continued her celebrated musical partnership with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and made debut appearances with the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In December 2024, Joyce toured the United States with Dallas-based a cappella group Kings Return with a festive programme entitled ‘Kings Re-Joyce’. An intensive spring residency at the Konzerthaus Dortmund featured the world premiere of ‘Another Eve’, a song cycle by Rachel Portman, as well as her concert debut in Handel’s Jephtha alongside Il Pomo d’Oro.

Joyce’s distinctively varied 25-26 season commenced with season-opening concerts for both the Minnesota Orchestra and Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, as well as re-opening Powell Hall with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in a Kevin Puts’ World Premiere, House of Tomorrow. Joyce returned to Musikkollegium Winterthur for a performance of Rachel Portman’s Another Eve, and collaborated with Radio France for Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder in Paris and Dijon. She reunited with pianist Craig Terry for recitals at Théâtre de Genève and Suntory Hall Tokyo. Joyce embarked on her first major tour of Australasia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, she made her Lincoln Center Theater stage debut as The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and made the much-anticipated role debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Concert appearances include Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Nézet-Séguin and the Berlin Philharmoniker. She maintains her annual in-demand masterclass series at Carnegie Hall and tours her album Songplay throughout Asia. Joyce also joins the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for her second European tour with Yannick and this orchestra following a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at Carnegie Hall.

As Joyce’s latest global touring project, EDEN, completed a ground-breaking 3 years with tours in Asia, South America, the United States and Europe, reaching over 15 million people and performances in 50 cities, the anticipation is only continued for her most recent album release and touring project. A newly commissioned song cycle written by Kevin Puts for Joyce and the Grammy Award-winning string trio, ‘TimeForThree’, featuring the poetry of Emily Dickinson had its world premiere at Bregenzer Festspiele in August 2025, with subsequent performances across the USA including Kansas City, Chicago, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.

CRAIG TERRY
Grammy Award winning pianist and arranger Craig Terry enjoys an international career regularly performing with the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. Currently Craig serves as Music Director of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago after having served for eleven seasons at Lyric as Assistant Conductor. Previously, he served as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera after joining its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Craig has performed with such esteemed vocalists as Jamie Barton, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Brewer, Janai Brugger, Lawrence Brownlee, Nicole Cabell, Sasha Cooke, Eric Cutler, Danielle de Niese, Joyce DiDonato, Giuseppe Filianoti, Renée Fleming, Christine Goerke, Susan Graham,Denyce Graves, Bryan Hymel, Brian Jagde, Joseph Kaiser, Quinn Kelsey, Kate Lindsey, Amanda Majeski, Ana María Martínez, Eric Owens, Ailyn Perez, Nicholas Phan, Susanna Phillips, Luca Pisaroni, Patricia Racette, Hugh Russell, Bo Skovhus, Garrett Sorenson, Heidi Stober, Christian Van Horn, Amber Wagner, Laura Wilde, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers. He has collaborated as a chamber musician with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchester, and the Pro Arte String Quartet.
Craig’s upcoming and recent highlights include more than forty concerts in North America, Europe, and Asia with artists including Katherine Beck, Ben Bliss, Christine Brewer, J’Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, Andriana Chuchman, Joyce DiDonato, Christine Goerke, Will Liverman, Ana María Martínez, Whitney Morrison, Richard Ollarsaba, Susanna Phillips, David Portillo, Patricia Racette, Hugh Russell, and Laura Wilde.
He is Artistic Director of “Beyond the Aria,” a highly acclaimed recital series now in its ninth sold-out season, presented by the Harris Theater in collaboration with the Ryan Opera Center and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Craig’s discography includes five recently released recordings: “Diva on Detour” with Patricia Racette, “As Long As There Are Songs” with Stephanie Blythe, “Chanson d’Avril” with Nicole Cabell, and “French Horn Recital from 24 Preludes, Op. 11 - Alexander Scriabin” with Lyric Opera principal horn Jonathan Boen. His latest recording project with Joyce DiDonato, “Songplay,” released by Warner Classics, received the 2020 Grammy award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.

He has appeared on numerous television, radio, and streaming programs, including multiple appearances on both “Live from Lincoln Center” and “Great Performances” for PBS, as well as on many programs broadcast on NBC, ABC, and CBS. In May 2021, he was the pianist for the Metropolitan Opera’s “Wagnerian Stars Live in Concert,” transmitted from the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Craig hails from Tullahoma, Tennessee, received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, continued his studies at Florida State University, and received a Masters of Music in Collaborative Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a student of renowned pianist Warren Jones.